The remaining major signs

Ya’juj and Ma’juj

Ya’juj and Ma’juj are human peoples whose emergence and overwhelming numbers bring great distress. Their end is related to Allah’s intervention and the supplication of Isa and the believers. The point is not to label a present ethnicity or nation with those names.

The reports do not establish a usable modern route to a barrier. Their mention calls attention to the limits of human power and the need for dependence on Allah.

A changed boundary of opportunity

The rising of the sun from the west is connected with a point at which a new profession of belief will no longer benefit someone who had not believed before. That is why the signs discussion repeatedly returns to repentance in the present. Waiting for overwhelming proof can itself become a way of refusing the opportunity already available.

Nobody now knows how near that boundary is. The urgency comes from acting while one can act.

The Smoke, the Beast, the Sinkings, and the Fire

The major-sign narration names smoke, a beast, and three great sinkings of the earth, as well as a fire that drives people toward their place of assembly. Their grouping does not settle a complete chronology. The three sinkings are counted separately: one in the east, one in the west, and one in the Arabian Peninsula.

They should not become one generic reference to earthquakes, nor should a particular disaster be announced as fulfilment merely because it resembles a broad description. Qur’an 27:82 speaks of a creature brought forth from the earth that addresses people. Descriptions beyond the wording of that passage and established narrations require their own evidence.

The smoke is associated with Qur’an 44:10–16, whose relationship to an earlier occurrence and a future sign has been discussed by scholars. That discussion should remain visible rather than being presented as an uncontested modern identification. The fire concerns an assembly of living people in the closing events of worldly life.

It is different from humanity being raised after the trumpet and gathered for judgment. Keeping those gatherings distinct allows their details to remain intelligible. The signs announce changing conditions and approaching judgment; they do not provide a map for predicting every event from current headlines.

Ya’juj and Ma’juj: Distress and Deliverance

After Dajjal’s defeat, Isa is instructed to take the believers to safety at Tur because a people are coming against whom they cannot fight. Ya’juj and Ma’juj pass the lake of Tiberias, with the earliest consuming its water and those following finding the place where water had been. The believers face a severe siege and turn to Allah in supplication.

Their end is described through creatures attacking their necks. Isa and the believers then seek relief from the bodies and their aftermath; birds carry them away and rain cleanses the earth. Renewed fruitfulness and abundance follow.

The pleasant wind taking the believers belongs to the later movement of the account. Dependence on Allah, deliverance, and the changing conditions of the earth form one connected narrative.